Summit

You come back from the mountain

and what gets you is the day to day,

the small decisions and the interactions

that have the same ruts they had

when you were here before —

you think everything should be changed

but it isn’t

This is the challenge

greater than the summit —

to integrate the things you saw

into the fabric of every day,

to walk the same paths

but go up higher,

to taste the mountain air

right where you are.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 26, 2019